Four!

Daddy drew Star Wars ships on the basketball court and the boys launched water balloons at them from the tree house.

Holt turned 4 on the 19th of February. He had his first official birthday party for just him, as we had did combined parties with friends the past two years. Holt loves his brother and honestly until the past month has had no interest in having friends other than Pierce. If we ever asked if you could have anyone over to play who would it be..Pierce. Who’s your best friend? Pierce. Who do you want to come to your party..Pierce. So we were excited he wanted to have a party and invite his 'friends'. When he did decide he wanted the party he said he wanted a lego party just like Pierce. We told him he wasn’t old enough to have it at the store. So he decided he wanted a lego party at home and guess who he wanted as the teacher..Pierce. So easy enough, I buy lego sets, have friends over and its done. I let him choose his friends he wanted to invite. He had five friends which was the perfect size. Two of them were Pierce's friends but he loves them and it made Pierce happy so it worked out well. It was the perfect size and a fun couple hours. Pierce did get a little too excited about building his own set and decided he didn’t want to help the others , but other than that he was a great teacher.

So Holt..why I love you so much. I have said recently that you really are the easy one right now. (and there was a time I never thought I'd say this..I'm also holding on to this in hopes for your sweet sister) You love being with your mommy and don’t mind running errands or just being with me if I’m busy at home. I love how you will just lay with me. I love how you love to listen to my silly made up stories about two little boys. You are beautiful and have the best smile in the world. Your curls, they are gorgeous, everyone you meet loves them. You love your brother and sister so much and love to show them your love. You love giving mommy hugs and I love you asking me to to lay with you 'for just a minute'. I love how you squeeze me while I lay with you and pretend you are asleep. I love how you tell me how good my salsa is. I love that you are always hungry. I love that you still nap and that you get to stay up with us at night and want to play candy land every night. I love when you say 'just one more hug.' I love how you talk, how you’ve worked so hard to learn new sounds. I love your enthusiasm for star wars and the wii. I love your imagination and your Star Wars sounds. I love watching you ride your bike like your 8 years old. I love swinging you. I love that you just discovered tv and how much you like it. I love your shyness when your timid and your craziness when your in your comfort zone. I love you.

and a cute Holt story..

Holt has never wanted to pray if we ask him to pray before the meal or at bed time. We've tried encouraging, bribing (yes I know you shouldn't brible your child to pray), and asking nicely. So we did finally decide to let it go and just periodically ask who would like to pray. So Pierce has taken the lead on praying. However, one night after we read our stories we asked who wanted to pray and Holt responded that he wanted to. This is how the prayer went...

"Thank you for the flowers and the thorn bushes and the people who have gas. Amen."

This was not exactly what we had in mind but of course he had us laughing, if only we would of thought of using potty talk to pray he probably would of started a couple years ago.